For your Naruto fic ideas, what's your centering one lkke? Like, are they all battlefield scenarios, or is there an enemy-of-my-enemy situation, or random encounter in an area Tobirama can't run away from?
Yes, I was hoping someone would ask about these! I have no one IRL to talk to about them and I love them so much!
Also, these are all actually fics I've been posting as well! I can put the links in a separate post if anyone wants them
And also also, they're all Hatake Tobirama AU's because that trope is my absolute favorite Naruto trope to both read and write.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure that, of the three Centering fics, two of them technically count as battlefield scenarios, but probably not in the way you're thinking.
Those two, that I call My Sanctuary and Hunter's Moon respectively, both involve Kagami and Tobirama getting caught by a human trafficking ring.
(putting the rest under a cut because this turned into fic descriptions and I'm trying to keep it from becoming a mile long)
In Sanctuary, Kagami is about six when he's taken and then thrown in Tobiram's cell as a way to get rid of him when they realized he didn't have the Sharingan, leading to Tobirama being viciously protective of him and essentially mentally adopting him.
Three months later, the Uchiha finally figure out where Kagami was taken and go to get him back, leading to Madara to Center on Tobirama when he finds the two in the cell.
In Hunter's Moon though, Kagami is a lot older when he's taken, roughly 12 to 13.
This leads to Tobirama and Kagami actually being able to escape, only to find themselves all the way on far side of Wind Country, two and half countries away from Uchiha and Senju territory.
They're then on the run from this utterly massive trafficking ring together for the next six months as they work to get home alive.
They eventually manage to make it back to Fire Country, with the traffickers dogging their steps the whole way
Tobirama's on his last legs by then, having gotten extremely hurt over the course of their journey, and knows he won't be able to protect himself if they go to the Senju, much less both of them at once. So he decides to take them both to the Uchiha instead, knowing he's going to be killed for it but willing to make that sacrifice as long as it meant Kagami was finally safe.
The traffickers catch up to them again only a few hours out from the Uchiha compound and chase them literally to the gates.
Madara comes out leading a bunch of soldiers to figure out what's going on and Centers when Tobirama meets his eyes as he passes him Kagami, with Tobirama leaping back into the budding battle before Madara can fully realize what just happened
The third one, which I call Heart, is both a random encounter and an enemy of my enemy situation. It's basically a combination of the other two but with Madara getting caught after a mission gone wrong instead of Kagami.
He's tossed blindfolded into a cell with Tobirama, who was caught by them after he was betrayed and stabbed in the back, literally, mid mission six months before, with the traffickers basically deciding to see which of them will kill each other first since they've lost Way too many people trying to subdue or kill Tobirama, even as restrained and weakened as he is.
Instead, Tobirama helps Madara remove the blindfold, Madara Centers, and then they escape together and have to make it all the way from Lightning back to Fire, specifically before the Solstice if Madara wants to not be declared dead, all while the traffickers that weren't in the hide out at the time of their escape hunt them down for revenge
Ever since they moved into their new apartment, Character A has had trouble sleeping. Being from the big city, they weren’t used to the quietness of an isolated apartment complex that almost seemed swallow every stray sound whole.
The somber silence of night made their heart slowly pound loudly in their ears -- *thathump*, *thathump*, *thathump* -- while they struggled to fall asleep. After a good long while, it wasn’t the silence of the apartment that gave Character A a feeling of unease, but that steady rhythm pounding on their eardrums, almost maddeningly slow: *thathump*, *thathump*, *thathump*...
Character A didn’t find rest that night. They laid awake, terrified to move and interrupt the heartbeat that never faltered or strayed from the same slow beat. The heartbeat disappeared during the early morning hours, and Character A knew now more than ever that the vacuum it left behind was the most terrifying thing of all.
So, after seeng anxious Spinny in a bow tie by @emositecc , I had to go through with this. We all know anxiety sucks and as someone who’s suffered from it big time, it does get better. You can fight it, so keep strong.
If you haven’t checked out Emo’s Heart AU or her new Collection AU, I highly advise you check out, they’re great!
